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Originally Posted by bigearl
We can work with the world and still be the shining light. There's no reason it can't benefit the whole world. America as a whole just needs to invest in something amazingly big that requires the best minds to accomplish. The point is you have to have a project beyond just making money that's far ahead of what we know how to do in order to stop this brain drain. It WILL be profitable for the whole country in the long term because you get that effect where the NASA people go build widgets when they retire. Make the best engineers and scientists in the world say "THAT is where I want to be, that is the cutting edge"
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We aren't in an age of long term profits though- look at the economic cycles. Boom or bust. It's sad- but that's where peoples priorities are.